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But Fore.
The second type
where transactions are prohibited in
Islam
as you remember the first type we said
ribba. This is why transactions are
haram. The second reason or type of
transactions that are prohibited is
related to deceit.
And generally speaking, to deceive
someone, to cheat someone is to convince
him
with something that is against
what is truthful and honest. So as if
you are hiding something or trying to
camouflage it so that
the buyer would not know of it because
if he had known he would not have bought
it from you. So you hide it. You deceive
him. You cheat him.
And deceit
is a major sin in Islam. It is
prohibited.
And people do not like others to deceive
them and cheat them. So how would you
allow yourself to do that to others when
you don't like it for yourself? This is
a clear sign of lack of e.
Allah says in
woe to those who give less when weighing
or measuring. When it's their turn to
buy things, they make sure that they are
exactly given what they're paying for.
meaning that they are exactly ensuring
for pound to pound, kilogram to kilogram
that exact figure is correct because
they're buying. However, when they sell,
they try to scam the buyer by giving him
less in weight and allahel condemn those
who do such deceit with hell. The
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam as
per the hadith of Muslim once went to
the market
and he checks
how the people deal. He is their tutor.
He is their mentor. He is their teacher.
So he saw a pile of food of grain of uh
wheat or whatever. So he inserted his
hand inside of that pile and he noticed
that there was some sort of moist and
wetness. So he said, "Oh owner of this
food, what is this wetness?" He said,
"Well, prophet of Allah, yesterday uh it
rained,
so it spoiled some of that food. So I
turned it upside down so I would put the
fresh food on top. It's like when you go
to groceries or to the vegetable market
and you find a big box of beautifully
sorted
fruit, strawberries, peaches and the
likes. And on the top you find the big
juicy nice looking fruit and you
buy it. When you go home, you take the
top layer and you find the rest on the
bottom or underneath to be rotten and of
bad quality. So when the man justified
his action because of rain, the prophet
was angered by that and he said then why
didn't you not put it on top so that
people would see it? And then he gave
that warning. Whoever deceives is not of
me. Whoever cheats is not of me. Those
who deal in such types of transactions
are not part of me. This is how Muslims
are identified by worldwide. Whether
they like it or not, whether the enemies
of Islam like it or not,
Muslims
deal with Allah. And that is why they
won't cheat you. They won't lie to you.
They won't deceive you.
If they do, then they're not real
Muslims. And this is why you look at
Indonesia, you look at Malaysia, not a
single soldier set foot in these lands.
Not a single Muslim soldiers set foot in
these lands. However, they all converted
to Islam. Why? Because when the traders
from Arabia came and traded with them
and they saw how honest and truthful
they were, they acknowledged that this
is their religion and they embraced it.
Cheating or deceiving has many forms. It
can be in transactions. It can be in
marriages because marriage is a
contract. It can be in all forms. So
concealing a defect
in an item is one of the forms of
deceit. And how is that? People when
they want to sell their car, what do
they do? They take it to the car wash.
They gave it a good polish. They put
some special paint or uh uh things on
the tires so it would shine. They clean
the chromes. and they make it look as if
it's brand new.
Yet they know that it has problems in
it. And they do this with the sole
purpose of cheating people so that they
would buy it without asking any
questions or they would buy it thinking
that it is a good deal.
the seller were not revealing that oh
the paint job is something that was done
recent the car was involved in a huge
accident.
There is problems with the engine. The
brakes are worn out. He knows all of
this but he doesn't
disclose it. This is deceit.
A se another form of deceit would be to
cheat in sizes or when weighing things.
So you say that this is a 1 kilogram
pack when it's actually 995 or 990.
To you maybe you think that this is
fine. the person buying it is not going
to lose a lot, but I'm going to gain a
huge amount of money when you see the
amount that I'm selling.
This is haram and this is something that
Allah would hold you accountable for. Or
when people tamper the scale or some
people play with the adometer of the
car. So, if it had 200,000 miles on it,
they fix it as if it's only done 40,000
miles and the purchaser say, "Wow,
that's a good deal. I'm going to buy the
car." And so forth. Another form of
deceit is in the quality itself. So when
constructing
buildings, when constructing bridges,
when doing a job, even if you are a
craftsman, a plumber, a carpenter, and
you cheat in your craft that you're
doing,
this is also haram. And you know which
quality is good and which what quality
is bad from certain countries from
certain people. You know they cheat they
lie they deceive. And this is very
unfortunate because the good guys would
be also labeled as such due to their
countrymen
being known to deceive and to lie and
not to be honest.
Now sometimes
and not sometimes actually a lot of the
times shan messes up with our heads and
he says to us
I need to sell my car.
So
I would be exempted from accountability
if I say to the man this is the car go
and check it out.
and he takes it to a mechanic and the
mechanic tells him what's wrong with it.
Though I know that there are other
things in it that the mechanic may not
detect. This is cheating, but I want to
sell. And here is where we come to the
fork of the road. Should I be honest and
compromise the price or should I pretend
to look the other way and get a better
price? Sometimes people
claim false statements that is so
obvious thinking that that would exempt
them. So if someone comes to buy buy my
property and he says okay I like your
property I like your house so how much
you want for it and
what are the defects in it so that I can
know whether the price is reasonable or
not. They said, "Well, this is a pile of
sand.
It's a pile of rubble. It's junk. It's
nothing."
If I'm selling a car, I said, "Well,
this is the car you want to buy. Go for
a test drive. Check it out. But this car
doesn't go forward, doesn't go reverse,
it doesn't turn right or left. It
doesn't start. It has no batteries. It
has no engine. It And I'm lying. And the
guy knows I'm lying, but I'm saying
these things just to exempt myself if he
comes to me in the future and says,
"Yeah, you sold me your car and this and
that was defected in it." Said, "I told
you it doesn't go forward, doesn't go
backwards, it doesn't do anything. You
cannot start it." You decided to buy it.
This does not take you off the hook.
Cheating is cheating. Deceiving is
deceiving. It's a major sin. And Muslims
don't do that.
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